Improvement in grain-baskets



H.'0. JONES.

Grain-Baskets. No. 165,417. Patentedjuly13,l875.

N. PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAPNEB. WASHINGTON D. C

UN TED STATES PATENT Qrrron.

HORACE O. JONES, OF DOWAGIAC, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,417, dated July 13,1875; application filed April 8,1875.

CASE H.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE O. JONES, of Dowagiac, in the county of Cassand State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Stave-Baskets;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making part of this specificatiom'in which- I Figure 1 is a horizontalsection, in the line 00 x of Fig. 2, of a stave-basket constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same inthe line y y of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a face view of a portion of one of thestaves formed with upper splint extension. I

My invention consists in both an inside and outside series of staves,ofv full width, which extend upward from the bottom of the basket onlyto or near the upper edges of the middle hoops, and from this pointextend up in form of narrow splints to or near the upper edges of therim hoops of the basket, in combination with splints interwovenhorizontally withsaid splint extensions of the inner and outer series ofstaves.

In the drawings of the stave-basket represented, AA are the rim-hoops BB, handles; D D, outside and inside bottom hoops; E E, staves; c d,splint extensions of the staves, and a 1) horizontal interwoven splints.The splint extensions of the staves are formed by reducing the width ofthe staves from about the middle hoops to their upper ends, as shown inFig. 3. The horizontal splints are interwoven with the vertical splintextensions in the whole space which is between the rim and middle hoops,the manner of weaving being the same as is practiced in making ordinarysplint-baskets.

The construction of stave-baskets in the manner I have set forth greatlyreduces their weight and cost, and when compared with regard to strengthwith ordinary splint-baskets will be found much firmer and stronger thansplint extensions, but not to form the up per part of a stave-basket ofthe ordinary construction; and, further, the horizontal splints may bemade out of cheap lumber, which will not answer for staves.

My invention is applicable to stave-baskets with any style of bottoms,and which have that portion of their body which is between the middleand bottom hoops made of staves of the full width and lapped in theusual manner. In the drawing the bottom portions of the staves are shownconfined together, centrally, by a washer, F, fastened in place by arivet. But if the ends of the staves are cut off, as indicated by thedotted lines s 8, this washer is dispensed with, and the inner seriesofstaves are terminated inside of the inner bottom hoop D.

I am aware of B. F. Tuthills patent, dated June 27, 1871, and,therefore, do not claim anything shown in said patent but That I doclaim is Astai e-basket, as herein set forth, made up of horizontalsplints and inner and outer staves, the upper ends of both the inner andouter staves being reduced to splints between the middle and the rimhoops, all combined substantially as and for the purpose described.

HORACE O. JONES. Witnesses:

J 0s. B. CLARKE, MARY A. JoNEs.

